We're
getting better and better! We decided to go with a
color format and have worked hard these last two months
to bring it about. We hope you enjoy the change. Every
week the paper's look will get better as we tweak
the settings and increase the crispness.
Five and a half years ago we stated our core mission,
and that has not changed. We bring you unbiased information
that helps inform you and enables you to make your
community and political decisions. We maintain high
journalism and ethical standards so that when you
read The Monument Newspaper, you trust it.
We have worked hard to offer you a stellar journalistic
presentation in these 16 pages that surpasses and
outperforms the competition by extraordinary lengths.
We've accomplished that; the high pick up rate, community
accolades, and several NEPA Better Newspaper Contest
Awards attest to the paper's stature.
We also love to reflect our community back to you
through photographs in our paper. Adults, youths,
and kids doing their thing, elected and appointed
officials doing their thing, the fun, scenery, joy,
tragedy, pitfalls and pratfalls that make a community
bright and energetic.
With color, we can offer you a vibrant package wrapped
around the exceptional writing. Your community, in
color. All the news you need to know. All the stories
that are interesting to read. Advertisements and photos
in color.
We owe a debt of gratitude to Ray Foote and the crew
at Southern Maine Newspaper Printing (SMNP). They
have published The Monument since 2000, when in March
of that year, we came out as a 3,500 circulation bi-weekly.
They grew with us as we went weekly, increased to
5,500, and then increased circulation again to 6,000.
They stuffed hundreds of thousands of inserts, they
got the paper out the door on time, no matter how
late I was bringing it in. Thank you Ray.
Our new printer is Central Maine Newspapers, in Augusta.
They do four-process color and after careful scrutiny
of the several printers around who offer color (SMNP
doesn't), we chose the crew at Central Maine. They
print many gorgeous weeklies along with the dailies
of Central Maine. We look forward to a long relationship
with them, as we look forward to a long relationship
with this community, whom we love so much and can
now reflect back to you in living color!
Thank you, readers and advertisers, for your support
these years. You have made it possible.
